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Col. Tom Cole and Claude Ai-
red, each of whom thinks he has
High Temperature
Sets New Records
at the head of the Adriatic, thus
closing one Important gateway t.
the Balkans.
It isn't clear whether Badogllo
for surrender Is reported to have
given Hitler the opportunity to es-
lotlng begins at 7
6 p. m. (Central War Time) In most
communities.
BERN, Switzerland, Aug 3—UP)—
Fifteen French Partisans attacked
i To the left the Canadians have
, captured Regalbuto, where opposi-
than
Gen.
Heavy Damage in
Harlem Rioting
TION UNDERWAY
JACKSON. Miss. Aug. 1
Approximately 250,000
aZ.J
the
Mussolini and Ba-
An Allied effort to aoora a quick
knockout in the »-day-oM battle
8m (VICIOUS Page Four)
Mount Etna Itavteraa 4t gnarte
tlie western Catania plain. .
No information was given by ot-
tnust cease at cnce
3. Italian troops in Greece. Al-
‘ _7i, France and former Yugo-
slavia are to be withdrawn at once.
laid down the following terms:
1. The Italian Army and Navy are
to cease all resistance.
ture of
ami, and Prime Minister Churchill
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dlortvwM of tbeD
■Ced the waters ad.- Alito
of Greece left .“Many
a sinking con-
burning, bead-
to aoora a quiet
a general advance of 500 to 4.200
yards carried them almost to the
edge of the strategic New Georgia
JBb
Signa of progress! The Economy
Grocery, south side. Is having screen
doors placed at the front entrance
and painted in color to match the
building
AMERICAN TROOPS EDGE UP ON
MUNDA AIRFIELD; ARTILLERY
BLASTS JAPANESE AT SALAMAUA
northern Italy as a buttress against
’ an allied drive from the south. The I
Nazis also ate said to have occu-
m and ends at | American Seventh Army
ported to have entered Trlna yes-
terday evening .)
established t
head north of the Dittalno River
and entered the western end of
the 'Catania Plain.
These successes
lean forces race for the coup de
firing of an .enemy destroyer^ and glgng their slaughter of
*■' * “ ’ Nazis in the fierce Orel offensive,
and as the allied bombers deal
crushing blows to great German
Fierce Struggle
Canadians and British manning |
taino fought the new 15th German
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O my God, I trust In thae: let
me not be ashamed, let not mine
enemies triumph over me -Psalm
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cities while fear spreads through-
along the whole line. I
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By C. YATF.K McDANIEL
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
'*a rioting
Ive persons
out a bulge f 70 square miles.
Axis defenses appeared U> be
crumbling rapidly. v
'Our trtops, fighting hard, an
forcing their way through rugged
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By KOOK* GKISNK —.7'. ■ .
aswwlatwt Frees War Bdttor
Allied troops racing to deliver the knockout blow in the
battle of Sicily were officially credited today with amaeMny
through the center of the enemy’q 65-mile Mt. Etna defeiuie
Faltii builds a bridge access the
gulf of Death, To break the shock
blind nature cannot shun,
lands Thought smoothly on
further shore —Young
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Wreckage of the Army glider hi wl
j glider crashed at 8t Louis muni
1
grounded planes were <
eight barges sunk and a tanker. the season,
hit.
A hlght reconnaissance plane set
fire tv .
New Britain. Australian-manned
warplanes destroyed and damaged
anti-aircraft positions at Gasmata.
New Britain, and attacked barges
and jetties along the epast
(By Associated Press)
Admiral William F Halsey's
headquarters announced today that
American troops, supported by
flame- throwers, tanks ahd artil-
lery, lu»ii 30C U ;,2JC
yards and stormed "close to the
FMker-bombm
bombers attacked
oommunicatkmsi I
battle Um. Fid
their sweepa and
Milazzo, Messina
MMB^lroop pofd
weight of Allied „
Hanes Which ran
off the west coast
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T roops Smash Mt. Etna Line, Attack
German Flank at Catania, as Prisoners
Total 90,000; Peace Offer Reported
fig enemy Una and
ti] their advance.
'Many Japanese were killed in the
, dication of retreat, Japanese re-
sistance was not as strong as here-
tofore
Simultaneously, Allied forces in
New Guinea brought the Japanese
stronghold at Salamaua under ar-
tillery bombardment for the first
time
The axis account, without con-
firmation from allied quarters, list-
ed the points proposed as follows
1—The Italian army and navy
are to cease air resistance.
2 -Collaboration with German,
must cease at once.
3—Italian troops in Greece, Al-
15th which was lost in Tunisia—in
• ----- of Catenanubva, on the
By DeWITT MACKENZIE
Fast moving crises on pll fronts
radio at Algiers, which coupled
names of Benito Mussolini and
dogllo as “thoae evil forces” re-
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Badogllo apparently was striv-
ing feverishly to maintain his gov-
ernment at all costs.
Reports from neutral countries I
expressed doubt, however, as to just
how much Badogllo could count on [
Italian iniiiuiiy iuivvb ii he at- |
tempted to resist an allied invas-
Ion.
Nowhere among the great masses
ot the Italian people, according to
the best information obtainable
here, is there any sign of bitterness
toward the allies, although hostili-
ty toward the Nazis Is reported as
almost universal. An indication of
this was seen tn the reply of Car-
dinal Nasalll-Rocca. archbishop of
Bologna, to a message of sympathy
from the pope, on the bombing of
the city.
The Vatican radio. In a broadcast
recorded by the British ministry of
information, quoted the cardinal as
saying: “No bitterness should be
Iglt at the fate of the air raid vlc-
Uma." Bologna was raided by Fly-
ing Fortresses on July 25
A special session of the British
war cabinet met last night fallow-
ing day-long copferances between
the beads of the fighting services.
Whether the meeting had anything
to do with the Italian situation was
not disclosed
the cap-
and Cer-
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further disclojed the fall Of TNtfiB
and Oenturlpe.
wl
J EIGHT PAGtS ,
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LILY
Stage Being Set
For Showdown in-
tiad advanced 500 to 1,200 I
eastern edge of the field” in a ell- | European 1 heater
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line, capturing at least five more strategic towns and wiping
out a bulge 170 square miles. —
Bxptadn “Armistice”
WASHINGTON. Aug 3— (47-
■Hm word “armistice" cropping up
in stories about the shifting Ital-
ian situation doesn't imply any
change of ailied heart on uncon-
ditional surrender of Um axis.
An amtetioe. military men point-
ed oat today, la merely a tempor-
ary neeaation of boeUlitiea to arrive
at a mon permanent end of Um
fighting. There murt be an armto-
Uoe first 80 the enemy MSttMuider
'has time to say fie wtU surrender.
And furtherasora, there ara.oon-
<111 ions’ evan In an unconditional
surrender The conditions simply
an Inspeesd by tbs victor and ator
f .
pns
trie appli-
ion, many
new light,
ixers and
J servants
J lives.
New Aerial Victory
These new successes were re-
counted today In a communique
which' also told of a one-side aerial
NEW YORK. Aug. 3—(AV-Order
returned to New York's Harleih to-
day but authorities remained on
the alert to prevent a possible re-
currence of yesterday'
which left in Its wake Si
dead. 545 Injured, 509 arrests and
an estimated 15.000.000 In property
damage.
As e.ooo police and WOO members
of the city patrol corps patroUed
turbances were' reported last night
in the heavily-populated negro sec-
tion.
FUSIDBNT OF CT. BOWABDY
UNIVERSITY NAMED
SOUTH BEND. Ind.. AUS- »-(*>
BSG^WUUl in Boblnarn. now at
the University of Notre Dame, will
resident of BL ■dward’s Uni-
ty. Austin. Um congregation of
Oram ^announced brtt RMM.
QM BtamSaw'lSSewBW,1 wto^artU re-
join the Notre Dame faculty.
Irigiii.nijra
»■—• •■'.w-jArTTWw.ia-.jnyy.
thei north, the American Seventh
Army are reported to have entered
i Troina yesterday avening.”)
New Aerial Blows
Tlie mighty ground offensive was
' accompanied by fresh aerial blows
' st Naples railway communications
7-Point Program for Italian Armistice
Glider Crash Takt
ers attacked American positions on
Rendova Island, opposite Munda in !
the Central Solomons, and lost j
threjg planes without inflicting any
damage or casualties
Tokyo's version of the attack as-
serted that Japanese raiders sank
a destrover and 11 transports, dam-
the best hounddogs and is willing j
argue about it, seem to 1----
I chav, occupation M which would
rv are I finally cut Um highway running
| Mrthweat from Orel through Kara-
L Ooll»bo^Uon wlth 1 JJ * <Mnnan supply
On thia front UM Russians have
movement against tha
) German defenders of
mactlc assault on the Japanese air
base at Munda, New Georgia
Many Japanese troops were kill- ■
ed ip the attack, a headquarters j
re- j combine to give the Impression of
a Europe which is rushing headlong
for the show-down—not that the
_____ U Imminent but
that the final phase of armaged-
Italian Marshal Badoglio’s delay '
to ,a Japanese destroyer off | Amarillo 106, Fort Worth and Del
“ ' Rio 104, Brady 103. Dallas 100.
Brownsville and Corpus Christi
registered 94. Houston 95, Galves-
ton 89. El Paso 90. Waco 97. and
San Antonio 99
Temperatures not quite so warm
were predicted today for the Pan-
handle and South Plains region of
West Texas and fee the extreme
northwest portion of East Texas,
but elsewhere little change
expected.
Churchill In his House of Commons
talk
(“The 78th division has captured
I Centuripe after some very bitter
fighting in the streets," the Prime
Minister said. "The 51st division
are making progress on their right.
lots today in the state's first war- ,
time state-wide general election
Some 3,000 candidates for governor | t
to constable will be voted on. Bal- 1 inc House of Commons that the | »jon wa. narticularlv fierce Fur-
----------7 a. m. and ends at American Seventh Army was - ■ . pa ucumny. wree. cur
was pounding J mercury touched 111 for a new
heavy bombers record Abilene's 109.2 degrees was ,
Numerous fires 1 Aug. 11. 1936, only slightly less than
was the recced of 110 set In 1888 and
* IN Au« 3
— - • ' - - American Forces yes- ♦
-..j J.«^l The ♦ terday occupied Troina, vital ♦
Airport in St. Louis during a demonstration flight (NEA Telephoto) 1 < road junction 60 miles south- ♦
♦ west of Messina, it wu an .#.
--- ----------------————"■ —' ♦ nounced today. - -
?♦>♦♦♦>»♦♦+»•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦?
and roadless oountry." toe Allied
Command announced.
Italian headquarters acknowledg-
ed that the Allies had launched a
powerful assault on the German-
, defended Southern flank where the
British 8th Army has been ham-
V1CI0LS ALLIED JABS AT AXIS
MARK CONCERTED ATTACKS BY
GROUND FORCES WITH AIR HELP i
* I mering for weeks to break into
Catania - TSTv '
The enemy has extended his at-
tacks on the Southern sector of toe
front, where bitter fighting to going
on.” the Italian war bulletin said.
Axis prisoners now passed the 60,-
000 mark.
As the battle raged into Its cli-
matic phases, the German News
Agency DNB broadcast a Geneva
dispatch to the Italian newapaper
------> Di Roma declaring that
__; Rrxievelt had mad* a
seven-point armtoUoe proposal to
Italy. i-’ 4
close ] don Is close at hand
I enougn to oomoaro me mg Jap- Italian Marshal rsadogiio's delay
! anese stronghold at Salamaua for ] in dealing with the allied demand
Dr C. H. Hancock had thought J
about the creamed peas that he'd [
be eating this winter, but his plans
have been forcibly changed I'
had planted and grew 25
bUVUV AW ITT L ai.M I
fine and just about readv to galh- |
er But, it seems. Uiat some
I liked eream peas. AL any
someone unknown gathered the
crop for him. Pete says that he'd
like to share-crop with the gath-
erer
thrsatenlng Um Gennan •oasraatob*
cations with Bryansk..and toavtng
thorn only csm unmenaced highway
from tha base southwest to Dmtt-
rovsk.
The Germane had concentrated
large forces northwest of Orel and
eotabltohert a strong system of for-
tified potato in an effort to beta
Um two roads, the-------
spokesman said, and enemy
sistance showed signs of flagging
Other good news came from tlie
left flank of the two-way Allied | end necessarily
offensive, in New Guinea, where
Allied artillery rolled up
■ enough to bombard the big Jap- |
LONDON. Aug 3—(47—A DNB
broadcast of a Geneva dispatch to
Il Popolo Di Roma, recorded by
the Associated Press, declared to-
day President Roosevelt had ad-
I vanced a seven-point armistice pro-
recoru Aonene» iwj uiisitv.t . T,_,„
1 the highest there since the109 6 of , “ “ JL,,.. -athnut mn.
11 lAJfl rvvalai wllerHflv Inco thnr\ TtlC UXLs HCCOUDt, WltnOUt COR
the recced of 110 set In 1888 and
I equally in 1907
...... r , I San Angelo had 109. a season's
in a heavy blow at the Buln-Falsl? • record, and Austin recorded 96. Big
Kahili triangle. A large freighter-| Spring's 107 was the highest there ]
transport was set on fire, many I In ten years and the ~ ‘ lt.llan rmnna m ,,reece
-------------damaged., Wichita Falls also was a record for *.
. ! .v- ™ rj.hwk'. ins the Prance and former YUgosla-
via are to be withdrawn at once
4— War materials must be handed
over to the allies undamaged
5— An Anglo - American-Soviet
military government will be estab-
lished in Italy until the end of
operations.
6— The arrest of all war crim-
inals.
7— The release of all allied pris-
oners of war on Italian soil
The roundabout report through
axis channels followed up repeated
German and Italian rumors of ne-
gotiations for an armistice, as op-
posed to the allied demands for
unconditional surrender.
Premier Marshal Pietro Badogllo
conUnued hto silent defiance of the
allied warnings of air bombard-
ments and Invasion to come.
Anti-Faactat forces inside Italy
were reported gathering strength to
aid allied divtotaoa whan defends
ot Um Italian mainland are finally
reached.
Uiat an anted landii
aoutbarn ahoraa of Italy
41 isu I Ciear woeuier Dauuguu _ . • » ry • ■
connived at this, or whether he I UrltlSH SlTlK
vivls forced into it unwillingly by ;
Italian population by the Nazi wer;^ I -RoUtS Ot
| Tlie Fuehrer's move is. of course.! Pack After Convoy
purely defensive. He expects the ;
United Nations to overrun the low-
er two-thirds of the Italian penin- '
sula. However, that no longer is
useful to him and he probably
doesn't intend to offer much oppo-
sition until the enemy reaches his
first line of defense, which Madrid
reports may be anchored at the
naval baae of La Bpezia on the i
west coast and run eastward to'
the Adriatic That wopld be about
200 miles north of Rome
Seeks Stalemate
Hitler's main line will be a hun-
1 Churchtu said American . 7th
Army troops stormed through the
, enemy's defense network M Troina.
Itos almoat in the shadow of tower-
1 tag Mt. BUml - ......
■ BrUgehsai BstaMtaM
i "A substantial bridgehead
* tba Dtttataa has been eetal
Allied headquarters annov
r Osman dead era H
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at his request I went out ‘ THE BOLTHWEST* PACIFIC. Aug
3 —(A*>—The battle of Munda near- I
ed its climax today (ylth United
States forces breaking down final
Gedrge Baker, a native of Den-
ton County, who will observe his
%7th birthday next month, was in
Denton Monday He was born in
the northwestern part of the coun-
ty in 1856 and is probably the only
man living In the county now who
knew the noted outlaw, Sam Bass,
well He said, “I can recall the day
whin there wasn't a doeen houses
between Denton and Slidell, and
there were no fences between them.
It was just open pasture and In
going to Slidell one just rode across
the pastures. And In those days, '
‘litre was real pasture, ax the
grass would come up to the stir-
rups on the saddle Yes many,
many changes have taken place
In the county since those days." ■
Mr Baker :ww lives east of Den-
ton
Large Savings in
Military Contracts
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-(A7-Re-
negotlation of contracts has elim-
inated 83A55.174.000 in “exceaaive
— -- - _____ r - profits,” tbs War, Navy and Mari-
the rtreeta only a few Rotated dto- ‘ time agencies reported today.
a saving, ths Joint report said,
does not include Savings reeulting
from lower prices in successive con-
tracts, which were estimated mare-
5L*us*s„uisSd,s’"--.-
Amr, 62.407.400A00;NavT, MB.-
65A000; MaritinM Commission, gta.-
320000. -r •
r Parii. —
Russians Take
Two Main Roa^
supported Marine and Army units
xx'S’x k i 1
attack Although there was no in clrc)e wRhln whl(.h hp
! proposes to make his last-ditch
■ stand to safeguard the Reich and
[ such of the octaified territories as
i he thinks he can hang onto
With this concentration of pow-
er, and a vast shortening of his .
now interminable communications.'
he will battle to force a stalemate 1
Ttie All Highest's plan is a
scheme of desperation. This is em-
I phaslzed today as the Anglo-Amer-
- ' wan forces race for the coup de
victory over the Japanesa. of the > (n Blc)1 ag the amazlng Rug.
p-lK.™ annroi! Hoel rnuar nnH
of a heavy bombing of the Buin-
Falsi harbor and the Kahili air-
drome, the enemy's major operat-
ing base in the Solomons
The Munda advance, a general
movement i „„ .
took the Americans to within at j
and the dwindling Messina bridge-
head Six enemy aircraft were de-
] el wed arid seven allied planes fail-
ed to return.
Headquarters reported that stiff-
ening of enemy resistance contin-
ued all along the Sicilian front, but
“our trops, fighting hard, are forc-
ing their way through rugged and
roadless country.”
expressed doubt, however, as to just -1
■ - - - - thev had out-shot the Germans in
Italian military forces if he at- i along the coast
Pushing north from Ramacca
(20 miles southwest of Catania),
we have entered the western end
of the plain of Catania.” the com-
munique said.
“Furthar west our advance from
Raddusa (28 miles west of Catan-
ia) continues in spite of strong
♦nemy resistance A substantial
bridgehead north of the Dittalno
(which flows between Raddusa and
Catania) has been established.
“After an advance through most
difficult country, with much fierce
fighting, our troops gained posi-
tions overlooking Agira (32 mites
northwest of Catania and 25 miles
south of coastal Ban Stefano, new-
ly captured by the Americans.”)
The Seventh Army blocked out a
bulge of some 70 square miles In
North Sicily by the capture of
Capital and Cerami.
Striking from bases at Mtatretta.
six miles due south of Ban Stef-
ano. and Nicoeta, 13 tnilee farther
south, they forced a triangle of
steel to oeraml, about seven miles
east of the Mtatretta-Nlcosla line.
Captaai liee between Mtatretta and
Oeraml.
■' •— •--“—j Aj)4|
fiSffa
htera maintained
in the decisive Sicilian offensive, it
was announced today
German divisions backed into fierce.
dr'ed miles farther north., taking' an(j planes on one side and theiEfitellyk “Ctp Bon' reeled under The seizure of Regalbuto
--------... ------- fetf' concerted attacks by Amerl- the mixed Canadian and “
can. Canadian and British troops left wing of the Eight i
# heavily supported from the air. mana of the crucial an
.A As tin* L. S Seventh Army in* etna ilna
Im dispatches
second biggei
heap of rubble”: 30 RAF
lost; other AlUed plane-
Ruhr Valley, Holland and North- from two
On the Sicilian front. Gen. Elsen-
hower's Command announced that
AlUed Armies were now sweeping
Into the western end of the Catania
Plain, while Allied warshlpe srere
reported shelling Gennan and Ital-
ian troops retreating eastward
along the Tyrrhenian Bea Coast to-
ward Memina.
; air.
As the C. fl. Seventh, Army to-.,
exorably battered the weakening j
northern fiank of the eneihy, uen _
Sir Bernard L Montgomery's men fl(ja] sources on the progress of
c=tat41=.*xd a substantial bridge- B,iU5h attacks across the plain.
r^<..o, B-itish artillery batteries, however.
W( re reported to have outshot the ,
German guiu defending the south- '
ern approaches to Catania on the j banla,
coast. stafta M —------------
(The fall of Centuripe. five miles. 4 War materials must be handed
of Regalbuto, to the I over to the Allies undamaged.
— ---- -----Brittsh-Amertcan-Sovtot
mUitery government will be estab-
lished In Italy until the end of
operations
6 The arrest of all war criminate.
7. Release of all Allied prisoners
of war on Italian soil.
The terms, noticeably stiffer
those offered last week by
Dwight D Eisenhower and received
with silence by Premier Marshal
Pietro Badogllo's new regime, were
apparently calculated to put an end
to Italian hopes for a bargain-
counter oe ace.
. On all world fronts, the Allies
were in ths ascendancy
On Other Fronts
Events at-a-gtance:
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC— Amer-
ican troops advanced 500 to 1^00
yards in climactic assault on Munda,
roach point 'close to the Eastern
end of the field” in eseault with
fltome-*tttowers. artillery and
tanka; many Japanese killed.
NEW GUINEA— AlUed artillery
------- bombards Japanese strondhold at
Eighth Army gunners reported Ralemons fcr first time.
RUSSIA—Berlin radio admits Red
Armies have entered German key-
stone baae at Orel, says Russians
are “attacking with great violence,
especially in Southern part of the
town:" Moscow reports Soviet troops
kill 3 600 Nazis, capture 70 mere
villages.
AIR WAR— Huge RAF Armada
blasts Hamburg, for ninth time in
10 days, breaking all reeprds fee.
sustained attack on single target; *
Stockholm dispatches describe Ger- __
many’s second biggest dty as 'A fort to break through to Bryansk.
s I "In a violent counterattack Ger^
k man troops dtotedged the Wiwetene
- from two dominating heights and
- thus effectively null If is* the
. broach.” the broadcast said. |
It artted that the Germans figom-
'
. .. By UNM C. CABMDY . ^4-.--.
MOSCOW, Aug. 3-dP>—Tbs Red
Star reported today that the Boe-
iot army had captured two main
roads leading from Bolktov south
to Orel and southwest to Karachev j
Hirmirirlr- the Ctevman wmiiint- k
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ECORD-CH RONICLE
fa' '.....—...........<—
TEXA|^TUE8DAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1943 AsBodatad Pre-Lrarawd Wire
Dittalno River fte— tatoao-
eouth of Oatania. ~
h-llnlng Gon. Btoenhowerto
warning that Italy woeld be
(Bee AXta. Fa— WMr) T**
pressure steadny'aouthwwit of VorO- <' J
shllovgrad where they were at-
tempting to regain the Donets Baa-, a
in defense line.
The .Red Star said on—y at-
tacks which were started by aev-
eral battaliona of infantry support-
ed by tanks and planes wan now
being carried out by several divis-
ions of Infantry, two tank divis-
ions and one motortoed infantry dU
vision. ■ \
The Ruesiarw neverthei— con- \
tinned to beat off the attacks In-
flicting severe tosses on ths ene-
my, the dispatch said
Ctalm Breaeh NaDiflad
LONDON, Aug. 3—WT-Intams-
ttonal Information Bureau, a Ger-
man propaganda agency, said In a
broadcast from Berlin tonight that
the Red army had made a “tem-
porary 11 leak” in “baaar—B—Iff- >.
tog batttea” tenth of Orel fa an of-
i
damlnatiiM betehts and
tivoly nuIliflAff
v
Allies Force Way in
New, Powerful Assault
was forced into it unwillingly by ;
j threats of reprisals against
_ ' Italian nontitatfon bv the Natl
uiuiK i a*ed a cruiser and set fire to har- i
to nrgue about it, seem to have i b°r Installation
put aside their animosity toward ]
one another Claude said, "I'm |
representing the Colonel In town I
today, av »,«> iv^uw. *
to clean out his haybarn for liim.
and he's putting the hay up, so he |
asked me to take care of things in ! _
Denton for him While we worked, I Japanese defensive positions after
we didn't even mention hounds, I ■ • - -- - —
and we got along nicely."
It was pay night. The stevedore airfield
was doing the town He and his
girl friend stopped near the en-
trance of a waterfront cafe. “Here's
the spot I've been talking about,
Babe.” the stevedore boasted
"There's more action in this dump
than In anv other Joint in town."
a The girl was dubious
“I don't know.” she said, Hre
you sure this is really a high-class
placet”
The stevedore grabbed her by
the arm
"High class?" he echoed "Why.
this Joint Is so swanky that when
the bouncer throws you out a por-
<ter follows to pick you up and brush
you off."
A meeting of the Denton Town
and dountry Club Round-up Club
will be held tomorrow (Wednesday)
night at 8 o'clock at the Rodeo
' Grounds, according to W E. Wil-
liams. president Refreshments will
be served.
Don't forget that the tlncan haul
got under wav this Tuesday morn-
ing If you haven't already placed
all the cans at your place on the
curb, there may be yet time to do
so Take a peep at your neighbors
pile of cans, and If they're still
there, you'll have time to Join In
this patriotic movement^ taa^ the
zthey"c«n fiet But lf V°u don t 8el
tn on this drive, you cap jtl"£=y-
place your tins on l..».
East McKinney Street,
Bell and Oakland Avenues
In the days of the long past. It
wax not necessary for one to think
about returning milk bottles, bev-
erage or beer bottles, ax there was
a plentiful supply of them, and
GDC Vr«S«*A7KS MaawM
to return them, if at all. Bottles
are scarce right now. as manu-
facturers are not able to make them
as in the past The deposit you
. have made on bottles will be re-
funded by a dealer. In returning
the bottles you'll be helping con-
serve materials that are vital these
days, and, too, it will save ’nan-
power needed In the war effort.
Put this down on one of your
'must' lists and get the bottles back
into the hands of the dealers.
W T. Hayter of Clarendon was
in Denton Monday. He has been
in business there, but sold out ana
now to a fanner and stockman.
Havter attended the Denton Nor-
mal college 47 vears ago. when the
late M. B Terrell was the head-
master. "Denton if still a p.
hot place, as I remembered It 47
years ago." he said. He has 400
acres bf wheat this year, saying.
’ "I’m not taking a vacation thto
year. I’m going to try to help feed
those fighting boys of ours, though
I have no inns. We’ve got a hard
Job licking thoae Japs and Im
going to do everything I can to
help* * #
In Monday’s paper, it •*».«£•
roneously stated that Mrs, Charlie
Scripture sustained a broken shoul-
<ter when a horse feu Charite
Scripture blames Roundabout and
Roundabout places the Maine on
’ Charite. B Mtoa Ch*rfan«
K^ohkrlte*'scripture, who' Re-
tained the broken shoulder.
> took Denton Mter-
, and. Without aorne
th? KrSTlJ^AVir ago O>6
readings wwe W and 67. ’
and may have carried the mas j
close as 700 yards.
Fourteen Lightning fighters, es- '
porting bombers hunting the barges
along the southern coast of the
Huon Peninsula, pounced upon an ----- ----- ,
equal number of enemy, fighters. ! for most of Texas after yesterday s
Eleven Zeros were shot down In, searing heat broke records at sev-
flames The Lightnings and the | eral points,
bombers all returned to base. j At Snyder. Scurry County, the
While artillery was pounding J mercury touched ill for a
airdrome Ahii,.np'K ioo 2 desrei
dropped 84 tons of explosives on
the town itself. K
were started and damage
heavy.
Army and Navy planes Joined
tl>e first time
Allied heavy bombers Joined In .
the assault, dropping 84 tons of | tablish a' line of perhaps a quarter
jje explosives on the town of Sala- million German troops right across I
<>u .ai.vru »..u .c-‘- niaua. and started huge fires at
about* 200 feet Tong, 'and they were i 10 miles up the c0^1
j auiii- I Dispatches from Alliec. „
•friend' Quarters said Japanese dive bomb- i pled the great port of the Trieste 1
r rate, i * -*
I
fanned out from I
tured baae of Bolkhov
developing
rear of th<
DBA . ...
German defenses northwest of
Orel wore reported being tflemem-
bered gradually by the Russian as-
saults The Red army launched a
series of simultaneous attacke
against individual German bases
and broke through Junction " *
and mopped up the enemy <
sone In separate parte.
Occupation yesterday of Zna-
menskoye. about midway betweeti V
Bolkhov and Oral, liquidated one
of the Oennanl mot* important
lines north of Orel.
fffra Qermana inoraaaed By
ing to regain the Donets Baa-,
■’WM
-Jsi
\®l
V 5P
A naval spokesman for Admiral j
William F Halsey's command in j
the South Pacific said American j
troops reached a point "close to
the eastern edge of the field."
A portion of Biblo Hill, enemy
•A.4 UC4C4IU44ta ttasv; s.vrsses.--
* euet-wpproach to Munda. was cep- ,
' tured in the American onrush, the ,
1 spokesman said. He disclosed that!
tanks, flame throwers and artillery I
erage or
waited until most convenient
same figure at |
Lubbock's 105 was the
hottest in three years.
Other high temperatures were:
A portion oi nioiu nui. enemy 21»*dbtnute the Ml'ied^ rivhts’of?Wav i
stronipoint defending the north-I’'Mdtepute the allted rlghUof way |
"w. . . ------------, tojre/me. Germany or Um Bal- parti*an«
The purpose of the Nazi chief's A Hnr-lr Italians
move is to stand the Allies off white i »«***<*"»
he makes final preparations to de-
fend his so-called inner fortress.
at present. Italian frontier guards at Novel, a
dispatch to the Lausanne Tribune These successes were but the
said today. After killing one guard j highlights of a series of vicious al-
they seized guns, grenades and mu-I 172 -----, "
nltiona and disappeared into the had cost the Germans many dead. t tbeast of Regalbuto, to the I over to
mountains at Saint Glngolph. ] Fighting between the Germans j eighth Army waa announced by ] ' A.’ A
----------------- ! and the American troops of Lt. Gen. - — 1 —■“*--
MISSISSIPPI STATE-WIDE ELEC- | George 8 Patton Jr was reported
raging on from Capizzi and Oeraml
3—(AV- ! to within five miles of the strategic
Approximately 250,000 Mississippi intend road Junction of Troina, be-
veters were expected to cast bal- ] tween the sea and Mount Etna 20
i_». ._j_„ a—• miles southeast of American-held
San Stefano
(Prime Minister Churchill
LONDON, Aug 3—(AV- British
warships and planes sank two of a"
force of between 25 and 30 U-boata
trying to intercept a big allied con-
voy and probably ' destroyed an-
other, a British communique an-
nounced today.
So successful was the British de-
eastward to' tense that the great force of U-
,.ia bom, were unable to launch a
single attack, the admiralty said
The convoy was east bound
The fight between the warships
nn nn*
] advantage of the strategic fortifies- ! submarines lasted three days. The
(Inns the River Po Here he w—V.
By DANIEL DE LUCE
f ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ----------------- ------—-
NORTH AFRICA. Aug. 3-(AV-Ca- 1
taino fought the new 15tn German
nadlans captured Regalbuto yester- | armored division—successor of the
day to breach the Mount Etna line 15th whlch WM lo<t Tunisia—in
and American doughboys routed the th< Brea of Catenanuova, on the
Germans from Capizzi and CVraml t ncrth b*nk Of the river five miles
----------south of Regalbuto and 23 mites
. . I west of Catania The struggle waa
backed into -
reeled under
iy com-
of the
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